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Nice try Obama, but you can’t stop killings

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Thursday January 24, 2013 3:11 AM

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are to be commended for their efforts to tackle the killing problem; however, requiring checks on all those buying guns and ammunition will not help the situation.

The guns and ammunition are already out there by the millions, and the thousands of demented young men are there, also.

Psychiatric tests can be passed, and the next day, the patient can go off the deep end. Who knows?

The Newtown, Conn., killer's mother is the one who purchased the guns, and chances are she would have passed a psychiatric checkup.

The governor and legislators of New York beat Obama by a day, but now, New York will fall under the president's edicts. However, if it hadn't, the gun stores in its bordering states would have had to stock up.

Killings will go on, and we will all be saddened.

A final note to Biden: I was in the infantry in World War II, and I can tell you that 10-round magazines are not the answer. Magazines can be changed in seconds.